Cardiff City's perfect 10: A look back at the amazing home season start

It has been a roller-coaster ride for Mackay, his players and the Bluebirds’ faithful, but it has helped ensure Cardiff currently sit at the top of the Championship and have created a very special piece of club history.

The image is of a young Bo Derek in a swimsuit in the movie of the same name or gymnast Nadia Comaneci achieving full marks in the 1976 Olympics.

Now Malky Mackay and his Bluebirds are in on the act with their 1-0 victory over Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday making it 10 out of 10 victories in front of their own supporters this season.

It has been a roller-coaster ride for Mackay, his players and the Bluebirds’ faithful, but it has helped ensure Cardiff currently sit at the top of the Championship and have created a very special piece of club history.

But what was your favourite game of the record-breaking ‘perfect 10?’

Here we look at the greatest ever start by a Bluebirds side in the Welsh capital.

August 17: Cardiff City 1 (Hudson 90) Huddersfield Town 0

Ten games won on the trot? Come off it, it didn’t look like their Bluebirds were even going to win their first game of the season.

But, as if to punish those who for some reason leave 20 minutes early and expect the result to be the same when they get home, a minute into added time up popped ‘Captain Fantastic’ Mark Hudson to fire home.

It wasn’t the most convincing of starts against the newly-promoted Terriers, but even a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

As someone without the money for a taxi might say optimistically.

Tucker’s take - Friday night? Cardiff in red? It’ll never catch on – or perhaps it will!

After a goalless draw at Brighton and a 4-2 humbling at Bristol City, the fact Cardiff fell behind to a dodgy free-kick against Wolves was a cause for concern.

But only for a nanosecond, new boy Craig Noone was felled and up stepped Peter Whittingham to score from the spot. Minutes later the ‘mercurial midfielder’ (copyright: anyone who’s ever had to write about Whittingham) was burying superbly in the corner and then he rounded off a sublime hat-trick with a trademark free-kick.

Arise, Sir Peter Whittingham of Cardiff City.

Tucker’s take: The first signs perhaps that Cardiff would countenance no funny business at home.

Blimey, when we look back at all of the ‘perfect 10’ this was perhaps as close as it looked to coming to an end.

Watford, packing more Italians than a pizza parlour on a Friday night, took a first half lead and hung in there.

The Bluebirds were not at their best and they needed two Watford men sent off, a disputed penalty and a late, late strike from Aron Gunnarsson to create a record. It was the first time they had won their six opening league home games on the trot.

Tucker’s take: By the end of this many people neither cared whether they lived or died. Such was the tension.

After the midweek perils of Watford, the Bluebirds were back into imperious cruise control against the Clarets.

Young Joe Mason popped up with not three minutes on the clock and Mackay’s side never really looked back as Noone (brilliant again) got one just before the break with ‘goal machine’ Connolly and Gunnarsson completing the rout.

It was a result which sent the Bluebirds three points clear at the top and it was well deserved.

Tucker’s take: For those who have watched Cardiff for years, or masochists as they are otherwise known, this was regarded as one of the best displays in a long time.